Conor McGregor Dennis Siver. Dustin Poirier Conor McGregor. Conor McGregor Diego Brandao. After a victory at featherweight in his next bout against Stephen Bailey, McGregor contemplated a different career path before his mother contacted his coach John Kavanagh and reinvigorated him to continue pursuing mixed martial arts.

McGregor then won his next fight, also at featherweight, against Connor Dillon, before moving back to lightweight for a fight against Joseph Duffy , where he received his second professional loss after submitting to an arm-triangle choke.

Following this, during and , McGregor went on an eight-fight winning streak, [26] during which he won both the CWFC Featherweight and Lightweight championships, making him the first European professional mixed martial artist to hold titles in two divisions simultaneously.

McGregor, repeatedly throwing a counter left hand, found little success with his initial striking. After ascertaining that Brimage was susceptible to a snap kick directed at his chest and chin, McGregor began to employ a looping left hand uppercut , throwing every time Brimage would move forward into striking range.

These uppercuts grounded Brimage shortly after McGregor started to use them. The bout was stopped 1: Following the bout with Holloway, an MRI scan revealed that McGregor had torn his anterior cruciate ligament ACL during the bout and would require surgery, keeping him out of action for up to ten months.

McGregor began the fight with a signature spinning side kick, before finding his range and successfully landing various taekwondo kicks, and left hand counters.

Nonetheless, much of the fight was spent on the ground, as McGregor attained a takedown 1: When the fight returned to the feet in the third minute, McGregor began to employ his left hand cross , and started to cut off the cage.

The win earned McGregor his first "Performance of the Night" award. The finish officially came at 1: If McGregor were to win the fight, he would face Aldo for the Featherweight Championship later in McGregor kept distance by using side kicks to the legs of Siver, as well as wild spinning wheel kicks and leaping roundhouse kicks.

Siver, a capable Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu [53] and Judo [54] practitioner, attempted three takedowns in the first round of the bout, but McGregor was able to avoid all three attempts handily.

Referee Herb Dean officially stopped the fight at 1: The win came via TKO. At the weigh-ins, McGregor and Mendes both made the pound limit, in front of a record crowd of 11, spectators.

McGregor opened the fight offensively, using a spinning back kick as soon as the bout began, before being taken down by Mendes.

McGregor made use of his eight-inch reach advantage [71] by throwing various taekwondo techniques at range, including a multitude of spinning back kicks, and a roundhouse kick.

After being hit with an elbow from Mendes, McGregor attempted to escape back to his feet, suffering a striking combination as a result.

The third and final successful takedown for round 1 for Mendes occurred at 3: Mendes briefly attempted a topside guillotine in the final half a minute of the round, but McGregor was able to roll out of the submission.

After a successful variety of boxing combinations, Mendes landed a takedown at 0: McGregor, remaining offensive on the ground, landed a flurry of 7 elbow strikes to the head of Mendes from 2: With 10 seconds left in the round, McGregor landed a jab-cross combination that sent Mendes to the canvas.

A series of strikes delivered to the grounded Mendes forced Herb Dean to step in and halt the bout at 4: To come in here and just to hear all the support [at the weigh-ins] and today If he wants to come back, he can come back, but I swear to god his day will come.

This would be the second consecutive time McGregor would be scheduled to fight in Las Vegas in the headlining match. On the week of UFC , Dana White stated his belief that the event would attract more attention than any other mixed martial arts event in history.

During the customary staredown, both men needed to be separated from one another. The final attendance for the event also broke the Nevada attendance record, with a live attendance figure of 16, Neither man performed the customary touch of gloves.

As the bout began, both men rushed to the centre of the cage. McGregor threw the first strike of the fight, a left cross which failed to connect.

But as Aldo attempted this combination, McGregor stepped back and countered with his own left hook. After delivering two additional hammerfists to the grounded Aldo, John McCarthy halted the bout.

The win over Aldo extended his UFC win streak to 7 and overall win streak to But precision beats power, and timing beats speed. He was a phenomenal champion.

We deserved to go a little longer. After emphatically dispatching Aldo, McGregor continued to express a desire to move up to the lightweight division, in an attempt to become the first ever UFC dual-weight champion.

Cerrone 2 , between reigning champion Rafael dos Anjos , and the 2 lightweight contender, Donald Cerrone. I will fight you in Brazil. I will go to Ireland to fight you there.

McGregor criticised his opponent on numerous occasions throughout the press conference, stating "Rafael dos Anjos is a free TV fighter.

He fights on free TV. I like the sound of that pound title as well. I feel like I can take three gold belts. On 23 February, it was announced that dos Anjos was withdrawing from the fight after breaking his foot.

The first minute consisted of McGregor showcasing a variety of kicks, before Diaz initiated a clinch, and forced McGregor to the cage. McGregor, aware that Diaz would bring his head low after delivering a jab-cross combination, attempted to make use of a left uppercut, with varied success.

The final minute consisted of both men exchanging blows, before a slow body kick from McGregor led to Diaz taking him down at 4: The second round commenced with Diaz using his check right hook, attempting to keep the aggressive McGregor at distance.

McGregor began to connect with significant combinations, until Diaz clinched and pushed McGregor to the fence, at 1: After a combination of uppercuts from McGregor at 1: After a 7-strike combination from McGregor, Diaz separated from the exchange and proceeded to land a jab-cross combination at 2: A swarm of strikes, including a slap, followed this combination, Diaz landing with great effectiveness until the initiation of another clinch, where Diaz landed 10 strikes.

After the two disengaged, McGregor returned fire with a barrage of 4 strikes, before being hit with two consecutive jab-cross combinations.

In an effort to avoid the assault, McGregor gave up his back, allowing Diaz to punch his head into the crook of his arm, and secure a rear naked choke.

McGregor tapped to the submission at 4: It broke his winning streak of 15 consecutive wins, and was his first loss since November I respect Nate; he came in, he took the fight on short notice, came in at , and done the job.

He was efficient, I was not efficient. That was it, I feel. We win some, we lose some. I will never shy away from a challenge.

I will never shy away from defeat. This is the fight business. After winning the lightweight championship at UFC , McGregor announced he would take time off from the UFC to wait for the birth of his first child due in McGregor is known mostly as a striker and prefers to fight standing up as opposed to on the ground.

McGregor is left handed and primarily fights out of the southpaw stance , but often switches to an orthodox stance. He will frequently try to be the aggressor in his bouts.

McGregor will almost always engage in trash talk and " psychological warfare " against his opponents, which has led to comparisons with Muhammad Ali , whom McGregor cites as one of his early inspirations.

Kavanagh recalls McGregor as "a game kind of boxer. He was very game. He loved to fight. But he was also very strong — he could seriously bang.

McGregor would eventually become an All-Ireland champion at youth level, [] but his attention began to turn towards other martial arts when he was about sixteen.

On 7 March , Mayweather publicly announced he would come out of retirement for a boxing match with McGregor and urged McGregor and the UFC to come to an agreement for the proposed fight.

On 14 June , it was officially announced that McGregor would compete in his first professional boxing match against the undefeated Mayweather Jr.

The bout was contested at super welterweight pounds with 8 oz. In front of 14,, far short of a sell-out, Mayweather won via TKO in the 10th round, setting the record for the longest active professional career unbeaten run, at In the post-fight, he revealed it was part of the game plan to let McGregor punch himself out in the early rounds.

McGregor was warned a few times through the fight for hitting behind the head, but no points were deducted by referee Robert Byrd.

By the fourth round, McGregor began to tire and breathe heavily with his mouth open. Mayweather started to take control and landed with his right hands.

For the next few rounds, McGregor came out throwing shots in the opening 30 seconds, but immediately tired, giving Mayweather enough time to carry on landing clean and winning the rounds.

In round 9, McGregor had almost nothing left. Two of the judges scored the round 10—8 to Mayweather. In round 10, Mayweather landed some hard shots which staggered McGregor across the ring and had him heavily slopped against the ropes.

After a few unanswered punches with McGregor barely on his feet, the referee waved the fight off. The time of stoppage was 1 minute and 5 seconds of round At the time of stoppage, the scorecards read 87—83, 89—82, and 89—81 all in favour of Mayweather.

Mayweather said of the fight, "This was my last fight. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, for sure I chose the right dance partner to dance with.

Conor McGregor, you are a hell of a champion. I owed them for the Pacquiao fight. This was far less than the Mayweather vs. This also meant the fight generated more buys in the UK than Mayweather-Pacquiao which took place in McGregor has sisters named Erin and Aoife.

McGregor worked on the whiskey for over three years prior to the launch. The whiskey is named after the Crumlin neighborhood, in Dublin 12 , in which McGregor grew up.

McGregor is the founder and owner of the company. In late , McGregor commented the brand had sold "hundreds of thousands" of bottles since the brand launch, and plans were to restock in the United States and Ireland in December McGregor charged towards Goddard, while he pushed and confronted Goddard in a wild melee, and also checking on the downed Redmond and knocking him down while he was trying to get up.

Lobov is known to be close to McGregor, with whom Nurmagomedov has had altercations and trash talk exchanges.

On 5 April , during promotional appearances for UFC , McGregor and a group of about twenty others were let into the Barclays Center by credentialed members of his promotional team.

Nurmagomedov appeared at the post fight interview and apologised to the NSAC, while also saying that, "You cannot talk about religion.

You cannot talk about nation. Guys, you cannot talk about these things. This is very important to me. Both Nurmagomedov and McGregor received indefinite bans, at least until the official hearing, which took place in December He will be eligible to compete again on April 6, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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